Etymologies

From French bureaucrate. (Wiktionary)

Examples

And the irony of that is, the day before -- the Pentagon spokesman said that one reason Secretary Gates wanted the president to get all these individual opinions was to avoid what he called bureaucrat massaging.

Thats funny Peetrick, Palin [bureaucrat], as goobernor, got medical care at the expense of the taxpayer, might even still do, and I she wouldnt drop her coverage even if they did create death panels [which was just Bachmann babbling]

Just as a po-faced bureaucrat from the Chinese delegation was making an extremely dull speech to suit the dull ceremony a protestor - who I now read was from the media rights organisation Reporters Sans Frontieres - jumped out from behind the envoy and unfurled a banner.